Chapter 646: Liu Ling was snatched away as cannon fodder in life (31)
After arriving in the Capital City, Luo Ning reported to the research institute and settled into the allocated residence.
Lu Xun was also transferred back to the Capital City in that sa year.
He had his own connections in the Capital City, so he helped Wuya transfer schools smoothly.
After they both had been busy for a while, Lu Xun suggested that he wanted to marry Luo Ning.
So after discussing it with Luo Ning, he planned to take her to et his family.
The key was actually to et his mother.
That day, Lu Xun drove a jeep and picked up Luo Ning to go to the compound together.
Lu Xun’s father was a general who currently held a high position.
His mother was a doctor who had t Mr. Lu through an organization and married him.
The marriage was between an older husband and younger wife. Outside of the guilt Mr. Lu felt for his deceased forr wife and children, he had always been quite good to his current wife and his son, Lu Xun.
However, an event occurred five years ago that threw the Lu Family into utter chaos.
It turned out that after Mr. Lu returned from the battlefield to his hotown, he found that his village had suffered several severe floods, and the entire place had been subrged for years.
He heard from others that his parents, siblings, wife, and children were likely swept away by the floods.
The flood was massive, and survival was virtually impossible for anyone carried away by it.
After a long search with no news of his family or wife, he believed they were all dead.
And so, a few years later, he married Lu Xun’s mother based on an introduction from the organization.
Lu Xun’s mother wasn’t so mistress; she only knew that Mr. Lu’s family had all been washed away and died, leaving him a widower.
Although Mr. Lu was an uneducated rough man, he was very handso, and at the ti, he had already been promoted to the rank of regintal commander.
Therefore, even though Mr. Lu had no family and had once had a wife and children, she still agreed to marry him.
The marriage was fairly happy.
Who would have imagined that five years ago, Mr. Lu’s forr wife would suddenly show up with children in tow?
As it happened, the Lu Family had taken refuge in a cave during the flood and managed to survive.
However, with the village subrged, they had to relocate to a secluded area in the mountains.
The family always assud Mr. Lu had died in battle.
It was only three years earlier, by chance upon eting a forr comrade from the sa village, that they learned Mr. Lu was not only alive but had also settled in the Imperial Capital and beco a general.
So Mr. Lu’s forr wife arrived with her two sons.
Mr. Lu hadn’t expected this at all. Not only were his wife and children alive, but all his relatives were as well.
He wept with joy, overwheld with happiness.
He had feelings for his forr wife, especially since she had borne him children and had not remarried but stayed ho to care for the elderly and children.
So, naturally, he couldn’t neglect them.
This was human nature, and from this standpoint, Mr. Lu hadn’t done anything wrong.
If he had disregarded his forr wife and children, then his character would have been in question.
Due to the previous guilt over his parents and family, Mr. Lu moved them all into his ho in the Capital City.
He also sent part of his salary each month to his siblings in his ancestral ho to support them.
This situation made Mother Lu and Lu Xun feel quite awkward.
But as the whole affair was an absurd mistake, they simply had to accept it.
However, after Mr. Lu’s parents and children arrived, they began to deliberately ostracize Mother Lu.
In front of Mr. Lu, they acted one way, behind his back, another.
Especially Mr. Lu’s forr wife, who often acted like she was being bullied and looked down upon by Mother Lu.
Not only did she tarnish Mother Lu’s reputation in the compound, but she also frequently complained to Mr. Lu that she wanted to return to the village, claiming there was no place for her here.
Her two sons and a daughter were also quite good at acting, and with the partiality of Mr. Lu and Old Mrs. Lu, Mr. Lu gradually began to believe them.
He started to feel that his wife was not magnanimous and should be more accommodating, etc., and so their conflicts began to deepen.
Mother Lu was a college graduate, belonging to that refined and serene type of personality, utterly incapable of engaging in street cursing or disparaging others.
When falsely accused and tried to explain herself, others would cry, and then she would be labeled as intolerant and selfish, an unfilial descendant.
Lu Xun hadn’t initially rejected his two elder brothers, even feeling compassionate for their years of suffering, initially tolerating them.
But those two didn’t see it that way, finding Lu Xun and his mother displeasing everywhere, thinking they had usurped their rightful place.
Lu Xun had occupied their position for over twenty years, enjoying so many of the Lu Family’s resources, living the good life, much to their dissatisfaction.
Behind the scenes, they encouraged Mr. Lu and Old Mrs. Lu to make trouble, after all, the grandson they raised themselves obviously mattered more than one they barely knew.
Furthermore, since Mother Lu was cultured and poised, with a good job, Old Mrs. Lu didn’t like such a daughter-in-law, feeling she couldn’t be subdued.
This led her to instigate Mr. Lu to divorce Mother Lu and remarry his ex-wife.
Their marriage hadn’t been formalized with a certificate.
Yet Mr. Lu did have feelings for Mother Lu, so simply divorcing her would have been irresponsible, causing him much consternation.
However, his heart had gradually started to lean more towards the other side.
Not only did he focus on raising his two sons, but he also took out most of the family savings and privately gave it to his already married daughter, under the guise of compensation.
But the savings included Mother Lu’s share as well.
If relations with Mr. Lu’s previous family and her own parents-in-law had been good, she wouldn’t have minded, since her own family background was solid, and she didn’t care much about money.
But they squeezed her, bullied her in private, incited discord between her and Mr. Lu and ruined her reputation publicly.
Now, not only did they have to spend money supporting Mr. Lu, Mother Lu, and others, subsidizing relatives back ho, but their savings were rapidly depleting as well.
Even worse, the pri job Mr. Lu had arranged for Lu Xun got snatched away by the outstanding Lu Laoer.
Securing a position for himself at the Capital Steel Plant as a cover, it soon attracted the attention of Lu the Elder.
Consequently, Mr. Lu and others joined forces, convincing Mr. Lu.
He then went to pull so strings and changed Lu Xun’s job allocation to Lu the Elder’s.
After making the arrangents, Mr. Lu conveniently had to travel out of town for a week, thus forgetting to inform Lu Xun.
By the ti Lu Xun went to report in, he found out about the change.
This ti, he was truly angry, though having the job his father arranged for him taken away wasn’t his primary concern.
But his own job, taken away by Mr. Lu without his permission, without even a heads-up, simply given to Lu the Elder, was unacceptable.
So, when Mr. Lu returned, he deliberately sought him out.
Mr. Lu’s rationale was that Lu the Elder had suffered over the years and, with only a primary school education, finding a job wasn’t easy.
Mr. Lu also couldn’t afford to frequently secure jobs for his sons, or he’d give others a handle against him.
As for Lu Xun, a college graduate with capabilities, giving up this job wouldn’t be a loss; he could easily find another decent one, so he let the elder son take it.
Lu Xun was infuriated by his father’s audacious attitude, realizing that his father was now completely brainwashed by the other side, beyond any hope of communication.
Mr. Lu always felt that he owed the others, while Mother Lu and Lu Xun, who led decent lives and were capable, should make concessions and bear it.
However, having already made concessions from the start, their tolerance was t with ever-increasing demands, and the others’ appetites were insatiable and unappeased.
Moreover, why should Lu Xun and his mother have to yield to anything?
They owed nothing to those people – it wasn’t like Mr. Lu had an affair, it was the misinformation and misunderstandings of those tis that led to the situation.
Had she known those people were still alive, Mother Lu, a maiden of good family, looks, and ability, would have never married Mr. Lu.
It was this that led Lu Xun to confront his father for the first ti, and they had a heated argunt.
Coincidentally, there was a mission to catch spies, and Lu Xun applied for a transfer to the county.
Unaware of Lu Xun’s security bureau identity, Mr. Lu, seeing this move, perceived his son as callous and disrespectful.
As a result, a lasting cold war ensued between them.
Mother Lu also felt heartbroken that her son had been forced to leave, and her relationship with Mr. Lu grew ever more strained.
This ti, if it were not for Mother Lu still living in that house, Lu Xun wouldn’t have wanted to bring Luo Ning back.
Yet Luo Ning wished to et her future mother-in-law, as well as those who had wronged her dear Old Lu.
ssing with her Old Lu, she wouldn’t let it go that easily.
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